HIGH HOLIDAY INFORMATION
Here is our schedule for the Yom Kippur services:
YOM KIPPUR
Kol Nidre service – Wednesday, October 1st – 8 PM
Morning service – Thursday, October 2nd – 10 AM
Discussion with rabbi – Thursday, October 2nd – 4 PM
Yizkor service – Thursday, October 2nd – 5 PM
Ne’ilah service – Thursday, October 2nd – 6 PM
Followed by Havdalah and Community break-the-fast
For Yizkor, please be aware that all names on our memorial board will be read aloud. If you have additional names you would like to be included in this service, there will be a list available on which you can write these names.
We invited EVERYBODY who has a shofar and can blow it to bring it along for the final T’kiah G’dolah at the conclusion of the Ne’ilah service. This includes our children with their 3D printed shofarim!
For Yizkor, please be aware that all names on our memorial board will be read aloud. If you have additional names you would like to be included in this service, there will be a list available on which you can write these names.
For the break-the-fast on Yom Kippur, we ask that you bring a dish for us all to share. (Please contact Suzanne Darby at suz_darby@hotmail.com to coordinate what you will bring.) Your food can be brought to the kitchen any time that day; just make sure to include instructions as to refrigeration, reheating, etc.
We suggest that you bring a nonperishable food item (cans, not glass) when you come to the synagogue on Yom Kippur, for donating to those in need.
Here is the zoom link for those who are unable to attend services in person
http://us02web.zoom.us/j/
Torah Study, 1st and 3rd Saturday’s 8:30 am via Zoom
Torah Study Saturday October 4 at 8:30 am
Contact Suzanne (suz_darby@hotmail.com) for information and study guide
Topic: Torah Study Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
Meeting ID: 845 9030 4211
Volunteers needed for community engagement opportunity: Oct 12 at Pride SoMD 2025
Congregation Sha’are Shalom is looking for volunteers to staff our booth at Southern Maryland Pride, Oct 12 from 11a-4p (in Lexington Manor Passive Park) any amount of time you can be available, is appreciated! Contact Liz Mildenstein (lizgilpin@gmail.com) to volunteer!
Women’s Group Meeting
– Sunday, October 5th 6PM
Save the date/time – more information to come
Shabbat/Sukkot Morning Service
Saturday, October 11, at 10:00 AM
The High Holydays will soon be behind us, but the next holiday, Sukkot, follows quickly. Our October Shabbat morning service occurs in the middle of Sukkot, so we will celebrate both Sukkot itself and the approaching holiday of Simchat Torah.
The bima will be beautifully decorated by our children.
A lulav and etrog will be available to shake. (There will be a raffle for who gets to take them home afterwards. Bring your business card to enter!)
EVERYBODY will be called for an aliyah, in the spirit of Simchat Torah.
The children will be blessed under the giant tallit after the third aliyah.
And when we return the Torah to the ark, the whole congregation will join in a joyful procession around the sanctuary — marching, singing, and carrying Torahs or flags!
Please come and join in the celebration. It will also be shared on Zoom, but we promise you’ll have a far better time if you can come in person!
Please help us solve a mystery
Please contact Jackie Schoch,(grammysglassgarden@
OUR CHILDREN
The future of our congregation truly rests in our children. We want them to feel welcome and engaged in our community. We don’t want them to attend our events out of obligation, but to be there eagerly, because they find joy and friendship there. Each positive experience builds lasting memories that will help shape the choices they make as Jewish adults.
With this in mind, the Religious School parents and Rabbi Gail have been working together to create opportunities for our children to participate more fully in congregational life. Zach Ball printed 3D shofarim for the children to blow on Rosh Hashanah, which they did with great gusto, and we hope they will sound them again on Yom Kippur. For our October Shabbat service, the children are decorating a sukkah-facsimile on the bima and will once again receive a blessing under our giant tallit. Plans are also underway for a Shabbat morning service during which our youth will lead the prayers they have been learning in Religious School.
Looking ahead, we hope to open some young family programs to the wider congregation and to give children an even more central role in our communal life. With their voices, energy, and presence, they are building our future.
Please send any suggestions that you might have to Rabbi Gail.
Marty won the “t’kiah g’dolah” competition on Rosh Hashanah. Who will win on Yom Kippur?
Blessing the children under the giant tallit, 2023 (this will occur again on October 11th!)
SPOTLIGHT ON OUR MEMBERS
Starting a new feature in out newsletter. A chance to celebrate our members and some of their wonderful talents and actives. Charity actives. sports, hobbies etc. Please send to joselle_gilpin@yahoo.com by Monday for inclusion in the week’s newsletter.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Lead a Friday evening Shabbat service — we’ll help you!
Our prayer book makes it easy — just choose your favorite reading from each two-page spread, either in English or Hebrew, spoken or sung. We even have some pre-chosen plans to use. The pressure is very low — the audience is usually small and supportive. If you’d rather not write a brief d’var Torah (a mini-sermon on how something from the week’s Torah portion might apply to our lives today), Suzanne Darby has volunteered to write it; and if you’re hesitant about leading songs, I can help out with that.
We’d just like more of our members to come up and play a part in services, and so we’re eager to help any way we can.
You don’t have to know Hebrew, and you just have to be past bar/bat mitzvah age. You can even enlist your spouse and/or kids to be your co-leaders. We’re looking for volunteers for Friday evenings. Please contact me at myerspat@gmail.com to sign up or for more information.
See you at our next service
HELP WANTED
Dates Available for Oneg Sponsors
Shar’are Shalom each Saturday morning (every 2nd Saturday) and Friday night (every 4th Friday) service at the temple ends with the pleasure of fellowship. A little nosh usually makes this fellowship last longer and adds to its delightfulness. Each post service nosh or oneg requires an Oneg Sponsor. Whether it is wine, juice, a challah, and some cookies, or even more – it is always appreciated by those in attendance.
Contact Marshall Jones (Mjones.shaare@gmail.com) if you would like to sponsor an oneg or lead a Friday Night Service or have any questions about doing either.